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Lizzie Ambie Escape Site

A three story, non-original, pale yellow house surrounded by a white picket fence. There is a porch and balcony on the front of the home, with three dormer windows and two chimneys on the roof. A white outbuilding peers out from behind the house.

The Lizzie Ambie Escape Site is a privately owned residence. It is a site on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. In October 1857, Dr. Alexander Bayly placed an advertisement in a local newspaper looking for 28-year-old Lizzie. Dr. Bayly enslaved Lizzie in Cambridge, Maryland, until she and her husband, Nat, escaped. They travelled to Pennsylvania, where they met famed Underground Railroad activist William Still. He interviewed the couple, where they told Still that Lizzie would “wade through blood and tears for her freedom.”

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Heart of Chesapeake Country Heritage Area / Julie Gilberto-Brady

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National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, Code: UGRR

Latitude: 38.5726288333333, Longitude: -76.0757296111111, Elevation: 28

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08/11/2020

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